Abstract: A method for designing a system LSI includes the step of defining, for each of instructions of the processor, a behavior function description and an instruction description specifying the behavior function description, and the step of synthesizing the instructions by behavior synthesis to define the processor. The behavior function description and the instruction description are separately stored in a database as design resources for the next design of a system LSI. The instruction description is retrieved as accompanied by the associated behavior function description from the database.

Abstract: A method for designing a system LSI includes the steps of dividing an algorithmic description of the system LSI into software and hardware groups, synthesizing the hardware group by behavior synthesis to create an RTL description and a simulation description, examining the circuit scale of the system LSI based on the RTL description, and simulating the system LSI based on the simulation description and a software description.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric for a filter excellent in cleaning efficiency and trapped matter retention volume is constructed by two or more different kinds of fibrous layers placed one over the other. The nonwoven fabric has an average pore size from 30 ?m inclusive to 60 ?m inclusive and a total pore area at 0.011 cm2/cm2 or more with respect to an entire surface of the nonwoven fabric. The average pore size is calculated according to a bubble point method as defined in ASTM F-316-80 with use of a Coulter Porometer II.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a vehicle having a drive clutch, a blowby control system includes a fresh air introducing channel, for introducing fresh air into a crankcase, and a blowby gas return channel for returning blowby gas from the crankcase to an air-intake system. A blowby control valve is provided in the fresh air introducing channel or the blowby gas return channel, for selectively restricting gas flow through the blowby system. A controller is also provided on the vehicle for controlling operation of the blowby control valve. The controller is programmed to switch the blowby control valve from the closed state to the open state, with the drive clutch connected, when the vehicle starts traveling. The blowby control system and method hereof can reduce variations in the engine speed occurring during engine idling and before clutch engagement, to improve ride quality of the vehicle.

Abstract: A processor has an instruction set A and an instruction set B. A system instruction decoder decodes a system instruction that specifies the operating mode of the processor, the system instruction not being included in either the instruction set A or the instruction set B. A system instruction execution controller receives a decoded signal from the system instruction decoder, which has decoded an instruction requiring changeover of the instruction set, and sets the value of a instruction mode register. On the basis of the value in the instruction mode register, an instruction set changeover unit selects the instruction set to be used.

Abstract: A method of making a spherical seamless capsule formed by encapsulating a filler material such as a medicine with a capsule shell material shell such as gelatin. A liquid capsule shell material is stored in a tank at a low temperature, and supplied to a concentric multiple nozzle while it temperature is raised to a predetermined temperature upon being gradually heated while being transferred to the concentric multiple nozzle. This prevents deterioration in the capsule shell material and excessive decrease in its viscosity. When the liquid filler material and the capsule shell material flow out of the concentric multiple nozzle, their flows are cut by imparting a vibration thereto, to form a droplet in which the filler material and the capsule shell material are disposed at the center and on the outside, respectively. Such droplets are dropped into a curing liquid while in a dispersed state to cure the surface of the capsule shell material.

Abstract: In a system large scale integrated circuit (LSI) according to one embodiment, management of the power supply, and the like, of a dedicated instruction processor can be carried out according to an instruction issued to a basic instruction processor at high speed. Further, the operational state of a dedicated instruction processor may be readily obtained by a basic instruction processor. In such a system LSI, a system controller (14) can include an instruction decoder (16) that decodes an instruction fetched by a basic instruction processor (11) and generates a decoder output. Such a decoder output can control a second power supply controlling unit (51), a second clock signal generating unit (52), a second program counter (53), and a second conditional flag (54) for a dedicated instruction processor (12).

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric for a filter excellent in cleaning efficiency and trapped matter retention volume is constructed by two or more different kinds of fibrous layers placed one over the other. The nonwoven fabric has an average pore size from 30 &mgr;m inclusive to 60 &mgr;m inclusive and a total pore area at 0.011 cm2/cm2 or more with respect to an entire surface of the nonwoven fabric. The average pore size is calculated according to a bubble point method as defined in ASTM F-316-80 with use of a Coulter Porometer II.

Abstract: A method for designing a system LSI includes the step of defining, for each of instructions of the processor, a behavior function description and an instruction description specifying the behavior function description, and the step of synthesizing the instructions by behavior synthesis to define the processor. The behavior function description and the instruction description are separately stored in a database as design resources for the next design of a system LSI. The instruction description is retrieved as accompanied by the associated behavior function description from the database.

Abstract: The method of the present invention is capable of manufacturing a thin film head, which includes a protection layer having enough corrosion-resisting property and water-repellent property, which is capable of keeping the magnetic head clean even if temperature and humidity are high, and which has enough durability and reliability. The method of manufacturing the thin film head, in which a pad, which contacts a disk, and a floating pattern are formed in a disk-side face, comprises the steps of: forming a adhesion layer on the disk-side face of a substrate, which is a main body of the thin film head; forming a protection layer on the adhesion layer; coating the protection layer with resist; patterning the resist so as to form a pad hole at a prescribed position, at which the pad is formed; forming a pad film on resist-coated faces including an inner face of the pad hole; and lifting off the resist so as to form the pad.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a spherical seamless capsule formed by encapsulating a filler material such as a medicine with a capsule shell material such as gelatin. A concentric multiple nozzle is positioned above the liquid surface of a curing liquid such that the tip of the nozzle faces down. A concentric columnar composite flow which is discharged from this concentric multiple nozzle and which is composed of a filler material and a capsule shell material outside the filler material is immersed in the curing liquid, and cut in the curing liquid to form a droplet. The capsule shell material of the droplet is cured by the curing liquid, and thereby a seamless capsule is formed. Since, the droplet is not dropped into the curing liquid, no deformation of the droplet caused by collision against the liquid surface occurs. The tip of the multiple nozzle is positioned above the liquid surface of the curing liquid.

Abstract: A method for designing a system LSI includes the steps of dividing an algorithmic description of the system LSI into software and hardware groups, synthesizing the hardware group by behavior synthesis to create an RTL description and a simulation description, examining the circuit scale of the system LSI based on the RTL description, and simulating the system LSI based on the simulation description and a software description.

Abstract: A method of making a spherical seamless capsule formed by encapsulating a filler material such as a medicine with a capsule shell material such as gelatin. A liquid capsule shell material is stored in a tank at a low temperature, and is supplied to a concentric multiple nozzle while in a state where its temperature is raised to a predetermined temperature upon being gradually heated in the process of being transferred to the concentric multiple nozzle. This prevents the deterioration in the capsule shell material and the excessive decrease in its viscosity from occurring. When the liquid filler material and capsule shell material are caused to flow out of the concentric multiple nozzle, their flows are cut by imparting a vibration thereto, so as to form a droplet in which the filler material and the capsule shell material are disposed at the center and on the outside, respectively.

Abstract: A catalytic apparatus for exhaust purification, provided in an exhaust path of an internal-combustion engine operable with at least a theoretical air-fuel ratio and a lean air-fuel ratio, is provided with a three-way catalyst (4) having an inner layer (12a) thereof mainly containing rhodium as a noble metal to be activated in an oxygen concentration lowering atmosphere and a surface layer (12b) thereof mainly containing platinum or palladium as a noble metal to be activated in an oxygen concentration increasing atmosphere. In the catalytic apparatus, platinum or palladium in the surface layer is activated in lean operation to perform an HC purifying function effectively. If oxygen is temporarily in short supply during the change from a lean air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas over to a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, oxygen is supplemented to purify HC by utilizing the O2 storage function of platinum or palladium as the noble metal, whereby the HC purifying rate can be prevented from temporarily suddenly lowering.

Abstract: The method of the present invention is capable of manufacturing a thin film head, which includes a protection layer having enough corrosion-resisting property and water-repellent property, which is capable of keeping the magnetic head clean even if temperature and humidity are high, and which has enough durability and reliability. The method of manufacturing the thin film head, in which a pad, which contacts a disk, and a floating pattern are formed in a disk-side face, comprises the steps of: forming a adhesion layer on the disk-side face of a substrate, which is a main body of the thin film head; forming a protection layer on the adhesion layer; coating the protection layer with resist; patterning the resist so as to form a pad hole at a prescribed position, at which the pad is formed; forming a pad film on resist-coated faces including an inner face of the pad hole; and lifting off the resist so as to form the pad.

Abstract: An engine stopping/starting control unit having improved accelerating performance. A charging limiting device is provided which limits the charge provided to a generator when the vehicle is stopped. The decreased charging allows for better performance when the vehicle accelerates from a stopped states. Also, the vehicle headlight can be dimmed while the vehicle is stopped, which reduces the load on the generator. An acceleration detector detects when the vehicle accelerates during running, and can decrease the generator load in response to the acceleration.

Abstract: The present invention provides a superior light-storing printed article, which includes a light-storing printed layer comprising 50-80 wt % of light-storing pigment having D50=22-35 .mu.m and D90=58-80 .mu.m based on the total amount of the light-storing pigment and the binder, and the thickness of the printed layer being 50-150 .mu.m.

Abstract: A vehicle main switch includes a moving member with a movable contact, the moving member being detachably fitted to a crankshaft. A terminal is slidably contactable with the movable contact. The terminal is supported by and extends through an insulating plate. A cover is provided to cover the terminal. The moving member is fitted to the crankshaft so that the moving member, the insulating plate and the cover can be turned together through a predetermined angle in a direction of rotation of the crankshaft when the moving member is detached from the crankshaft. The cover includes a window through which a wiring coupler may be detachably coupled to the terminal.

Abstract: A method for detecting a misfire by fluctuation in crankshaft rotation in which the occurrence of a misfire can be detected exactly by eliminating the effect of detection error in detecting the fluctuation in crankshaft rotation, caused by the error in the construction of a crank angle sensor. By succeedingly receiving pulses from the crank angle sensor, a processor detects a time interval taken from the entering into a crankshaft rotation angle region, relating to a cylinder corresponding to both pulses, to the leaving therefrom (S2), calculates the crankshaft angular acceleration D.omega..sub.n by using the correction factor calculated on the basis of the above detected time interval, and the time interval determined by dividing the time taken for one rotation of the crankshaft by the number of cylinders (S3, S4), the latter interval being free from sensor error, and detects the occurrence of a misfire when the calculated value D.omega..sub.n is less than the decision value (S5 through S7).

Abstract: A resin composition for a laminate comprises 100 parts by weight of a polyfunctional epoxy resin (I) obtained by (i)(1) glycidylizing a polycomposite formed from a blend of brominated bisphenol A and bisphenol A, or brominated bisphenol A and formaldehyde; or (2) a mixture of a polyfunctional epoxy resin and a bisphenol A-advanced epoxy resin reacted with brominated bisphenol A in a hydroxyl:epoxy equivalent ratio of from 0.05-0.5:1 and (ii) a bisphenol A-formaldehyde phenolic resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 1,000-10,000 in a hydroxyl:epoxy equivalent ratio with respect to epoxy resin (i) of from 0.7-1.2:1; and (II) from 1-60 parts by weight of a straight chain polymer (c) such as a poly(ether)sulfone, aromatic polyester, phenoxy resin, polyparabanic acid, polyetherimide or polyphenylene sulfide.